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Thus unmasked as the leader of a counterfeit gold coin ring, the 24-year-old, French Canadian Besson admitted that high finance was in his blood-he was a nephew of the late, crack-pate deputy Philibert Hippolyte Marcelin Besson, called "the Incredible," famed for his Ed Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Piker's Nephew | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Elsewhere the talents of Victor Moore, Kathryn Grayson, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn and Lena Home peep through the shuffle and bustle. The whole is well-buttressed, as the Master would surely have it, with the Technicolored verities of the half-naked female form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current & Choice, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...Hollywood-manufactured sequel to See Here, Private Hargrove, but it happens to be funnier than the original. The war, as it was fought by eager, incompetent Corporal Hargrove (Robert Walker) and cynical con-man Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), bears only a casual scenic resemblance to real war. The France they trudge through is a mythical landscape. But Hargrove and Mulvehill seem far more real than many of the screen's dead-earnest soldier heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 31, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...given Corwin the green light for a sustaining summer series. Furthermore, instead of a late-night spot to which such worthy projects are usually relegated, CBS assigned Corwin to the desirable Tuesday 9-9:30 p.m. time. Corwin corrailed a crew of Hollywood professionals (Groucho Marx, Keenan Wynn, Sylvia Sidney, Ronald Colman) and labored mightily on his favorite stock in trade: the supremacy of the common man. But this time all he brought forth were tired platitudes, well-worn dramatic tricks, cacophonic sound effects. Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all big-time evening shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Best Busts | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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